PetSmart Grooming

OK, I really dreaded this morning. Sasha had an appointment at Petsmart grooming.
I had been so busy I hadn't been able to give her her bath and conditioning for the past two weeks; it had to be done, but...

2)Lots of people SAY they can groom an Afghan, but it is really difficult to get it RIGHT - and Sasha was a shelter pup who came to us after a bad bout of mange, and was horribly shaved to boot. It's growing out nicely, and I wanted to KEEP it that way.

3) Her hair is babyfine and very flyaway, soft and fluffy. It never sheds and doesn't tangle easily; we brush her as much as we can (3x a week), but... still... was she matted underneath or behind those looong ears?

So I took her in at 10, and they took one look and said, she won't be ready and dry til 1:30. So I went to Michaels and other stores (oh darn) and snuck back in around 12. There she was on the table, refusing to have ANYTHING to do with the pretty hair clips the groomer tried to apply, shaking her head violently. (Thass my girl! LOL) She NEVER bites but IS a head-butter.

But we got her back, and for all the work that I KNOW she was to groom, it cost us the 'outrageous' sum of... $46.00!!! That is amazing to me. She was soft and conditioned and even slightly-but-well-trimmed. The prices for regular baths with grooming only start at $25! That's ears and nails, too!

These folks really need to advertise how cheap they are for what they do. Now I'm gonna start looking into my wallet every time I start looking at the dog shampoo bottle!

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They LOVE AllicksBlindPup and as you can imagine, it is stressful for a blindpup to be bathed. They comfort her, make her feel right at home, and I get a sparkling white puppy back. She knows Petsmart in fact I can't take her there when MamaJoan is teaching a class, as she will drag me over to the training pen to 'see' her "Teacher". She can hear her voice in the cavernous building. She is totally at ease. AmbrrNanaDog on the other hand, even tho she'll swim in ocean all the livelong day, HATES baths and she's like washing an 80 # cat. So I have her groomed. If I don't want to make the trip to Bluffton I use the Feed and Seeds here in Bft. They do a good job as well.
I don't have a bathtub, so if they don't get in the shower (talk about a challenge) they don't get bathed. The nail trimmng makes the whole thing worthwhile, as well. Pups hate having nails trimmed.www.handicappedpets.netwww.handicappedpets.com

The Petsmart groomers have compassion for unadopted animals too. A couple of times when we have needed help for a pet at one of our adoption events they have been happy to accomodate it, and never charged us a cent.

As Wiley and Gabriel said, their work is first-class, and so are their hearts.

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